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Ray Bradbury Quotes

I’m not a science-fiction writer. I’ve only written one book that’s science fiction, and that’s Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy Picture Quote #1

You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they’re your friends for a lifetime. That’s what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you’re doing, so you need a few other people like yourself Picture Quote #1

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly Picture Quote #1

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys Picture Quote #1

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good Picture Quote #1

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle Picture Quote #1

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If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don’t Picture Quote #1

The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain Picture Quote #1

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more Picture Quote #1

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time Picture Quote #1

Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row Picture Quote #1

If you write a hundred short stories and they’re all bad, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You fail only if you stop writing Picture Quote #1

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I don’t like the kind of writer who’s out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them Picture Quote #1

I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning Picture Quote #1

And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you’ve hid inside () Picture Quote #1

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you’ve hid inside (...) Picture Quote #1

We’ve let too much time go by. We’ve been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that’s what space travel is all about. It’s all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty Picture Quote #1

I don’t like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower Picture Quote #1

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I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously Picture Quote #1

I believe the universe created us we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I’m religious Picture Quote #1

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man’s attitude when he has power Picture Quote #1

We can’t live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be Picture Quote #1

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college Picture Quote #1

And then, to the sound of death, the sound of the jets cutting the sky in two black pieces beyond the horizon, he would lie in the loft, hidden and safe, watching those strange new stars over the rim of the earth, fleeing from the soft color of dawn Picture Quote #1

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When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents’ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‘Amazing Stories,’ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination Picture Quote #1

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers Picture Quote #1

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book Picture Quote #1

For if we’re destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person Picture Quote #1

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I’ve never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children Picture Quote #1

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them Picture Quote #1

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I’m not a science-fiction writer. I’ve only written one book that’s science fiction, and that’s Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy (Ray Bradbury Quotes) You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they’re your friends for a lifetime. That’s what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you’re doing, so you need a few other people like yourself (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys (Ray Bradbury Quotes) When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don’t. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) If you write a hundred short stories and they’re all bad, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You fail only if you stop writing. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I don’t like the kind of writer who’s out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you’ve hid inside () (Ray Bradbury Quotes) (...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you’ve hid inside (...) (Ray Bradbury Quotes) We’ve let too much time go by. We’ve been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that’s what space travel is all about. It’s all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I don’t like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I believe the universe created us we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I’m religious. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man’s attitude when he has power. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) We can’t live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) And then, to the sound of death, the sound of the jets cutting the sky in two black pieces beyond the horizon, he would lie in the loft, hidden and safe, watching those strange new stars over the rim of the earth, fleeing from the soft color of dawn. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents’ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‘Amazing Stories,’ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers (Ray Bradbury Quotes) My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) For if we’re destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I’ve never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children. (Ray Bradbury Quotes) You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. (Ray Bradbury Quotes)

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